Koprivshtitsa is a unique town museum which has preserved in compactness with its 250 houses of the Revival Period architecture. Old arched stone bridges on the river Topolnitza, narrow meandering streets with thick stone walls rising high with solid wooden gates, hiding century old houses painted in different vivid colours (yellow, orange, red, blue, green) that take us back in time.
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Koprivshtitza is intrinsically linked to Bulgarian history. It is there that on April 20, 1876 the rebels fired the first rifle that marked the onset of the tragic struggle of the Bulgarian people against the five centuries of Ottoman rule.
Oslekov's House ‘Oslekovata kashta’ is one of the most valuable example of the Revival architecture. The house represents the so-called Plovdiv symmetrical style. A spacious closed otvod (hall), glassed kioshk (verandah) and rich mural decoration characterize the house. The “Oslekovata kashta” is now an ethnographic museum.
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the House of Georgi Benkovski the leader of the April Uprising
the House of Luben Karavelov
the House of Todor Kableshkov 25-years old man who organised the rebellion in the town, constructed on the principle of the symmetry, organized around a spacious round hall the house is considered as a supreme achievement of the architectural work in
Koprivshtitsa.
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Lyutov House birthplace of revolutionary Georgi Benkovski, one of the leaders of the April Uprising of 1876
House of the writer Dimcho Develyanov. In a beautiful yard, under the shades of tall trees a small two-storey house is hiding. Painted in blue, enclosed by tall stone walls it was built in 1830. In the garden the monument of Debelianov and a statue of his mother, waiting in ‘silent daze’ for her son to return.
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